Description

Google Japanese Input, optimized for Android devices. Featuring a rich and relevant vocabulary set and convenient conversion capability to increase the efficiency of Japanese Input. [Features] - Rich and relevant vocabulary set. We have extracted all the right words from our desktop version to cover all the mobile use case: from writing an email to looking up a map and writing something on your favorite social network site and so on. -- Places: [東京都中央卸売市場] [秋葉原ラジオ会館] [立山黒部アルペンルート] -- Celebrity : [徳川光圀] [織田信秀] -- Foreign words : [Android（あんどろいど）] [Bistro（びすとろ）] [Trattoria（とらっとりあ）]

- Neat features. Take advantage of unique handy features such as: -- 「きょう」to get today's date or「いま」to get the current time.

[Requirements] - Android 4.2 or later.

[Notes] - All the Google Japanese Input product, including this Android version, can be used without any active network connection.

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Archie Marcelo

great and suggestion. I like it always but there is one more missing in this keyboard, like the pinyin keyboard can you please insert also the "free writing" layout too? it helps to write kanji that we dont know and can be recognized by the auto correct system of the keyboard. It will help alot to Japanese learners using this app. Thank you so much for reading my suggestion.

Destiny Wright

still figuring it out seems cool but I'm not sure how to find the emojis shown in the above screenshots. also how can i change the color of the emojis as shown? romaji keyboard is a bit slow. reminds me of old school texting on a trac phone haha. also voice to text on this would be very convenient. edit I found the voice to text button

Pi Chan

No handwritting this jap ime is so good but dont have handwritting input together, users have to download google hand writting input to write kanji, please i dun wanna switch ime just for typing one kanji, then to switch back for remaining hiragana. why cant just make it like chinese pinyin ime tat the handwriting is integrated to the pinyin ime together?

Ri

Great! this is basically my keyboard now. i switched from swiftkey to this because of the "security" issues before and their app eats a lot of space/memory (swiftkey 180MB &lt; google jp 30 MB). since i study japanese, typing has been pretty easy.

Harry T

was perfect, please change it back the new ux is not good, typing a / - + ~ requires you to swipe, and the swipe doesn't work half the time. if you're talking to somebody it really slows you down. sorry to leave a 1 star but it was so good before. if it ain't broke don't fix it!

Matthew Wright

Lacking for bilinguals I use both English and 日本語 constantly, and I have to say that the English side of this keyboard stinks. It has decent prediction, but no correction. Meaning if I make an error half-way through a word, I have no choice but to erase and start over.

User reviews

Archie Marcelo September 10, 2016

great and suggestion. I like it always but there is one more missing in this keyboard, like the pinyin keyboard can you please insert also the "free writing" layout too? it helps to write kanji that we dont know and can be recognized by the auto correct system of the keyboard. It will help alot to Japanese learners using this app. Thank you so much for reading my suggestion.

still figuring it out seems cool but I'm not sure how to find the emojis shown in the above screenshots. also how can i change the color of the emojis as shown? romaji keyboard is a bit slow. reminds me of old school texting on a trac phone haha. also voice to text on this would be very convenient. edit I found the voice to text button

No handwritting this jap ime is so good but dont have handwritting input together, users have to download google hand writting input to write kanji, please i dun wanna switch ime just for typing one kanji, then to switch back for remaining hiragana. why cant just make it like chinese pinyin ime tat the handwriting is integrated to the pinyin ime together?

Great! this is basically my keyboard now. i switched from swiftkey to this because of the "security" issues before and their app eats a lot of space/memory (swiftkey 180MB &lt; google jp 30 MB). since i study japanese, typing has been pretty easy.

was perfect, please change it back the new ux is not good, typing a / - + ~ requires you to swipe, and the swipe doesn't work half the time. if you're talking to somebody it really slows you down. sorry to leave a 1 star but it was so good before. if it ain't broke don't fix it!

Lacking for bilinguals I use both English and 日本語 constantly, and I have to say that the English side of this keyboard stinks. It has decent prediction, but no correction. Meaning if I make an error half-way through a word, I have no choice but to erase and start over.

Recent Update is slighty more inconvenient. This app is great. I don't even use the Japanese part of it, I just like the way that it allows me to input english letters. Recently there was an update that made it so I can't access my recent symbols from the number menu without changing the numbers from dialer style to keyboard style. I used to be able to access the symbols directly from the dialer style menu, but this update has somewhat broken my flow when texting. Please revert this feature back!

Last update broke it This app used to be great, but it is now terrible for writing English. The ' apostrophe mark is impossible to type quickly and the spacebar is too small. As if contractions such as "can't, won't, isn't", etc. are not commonly-typed words...

Love it, HOWEVER... I really get ticked off by the fact that the period symbol is too close to the space bar. Instead of having spaces in between words, i.would.have.sentences.turned.out.like.this. and it really agitates me when I would have to back track and correct my mistakes over and over again. Please fix this, よろしくお願いします、ありがとう。

Having issues with input. I choose the correct 予想変換、but it inputs something else that I didn't choose. For example, I would choose おお! from the boxes above the keyboard, but when I look up at the text, I would find that they instead inputted 大！for no apparent reason. Happens A LOT. I know the reason isn't clumsy fingers or anything, because it's never happened with other input methods before. It's a huge issue and unacceptable. I can't be the only one with this issue?!?!

UI changes fix some problems, but introduce other ones! Have to agree with many of the users who are complaining about the UI changes. The one- handed mode works great for smaller displays, but on tablets it's now much worse because you can't change the width of the keyboard. It stretches to fit the whole screen, which can't be used with one hand.

Not bad Arguably the best keyboard for typing Japanese. I love the addition of themes in this version, thank you for listening, I love you. Now I can have my pink keyboard across my keyboards haha. I would still kind of like swiping added, but this is worthy of 5 stars as I wasn't expecting much to happen.

Amazing Letting this out now, if you're Japanese, add me on Skype and we can talk. あなたが日本語であれば、私をSkypeに追加して話すことができます。 (amber.kilbara) This is amazing. I can talk to my Japanese friend on Skype and it works perfectly, easy to you and very fun.

No romaji input? Well, I'm still learning Japanese. Without romaji aid, it is difficult for me to type out the words sometimes. It would better to have romaji input. Look at GO keyboard, to be honest, theirs is somewhat better except there's ads.

Great, with a notable exception. I recently switched from my Samsung phone, which had a fantastic built in Japanese QWERTY keyboard, to a phone running stock Android. So I was very pleased to see that Google's Japanese keyboard app also included a QWERTY mode. However, by adding the 「ー」 key to the middle row of the characters, it completely shifts the alignment of "A" through "L," when compared to the standard English keyboard. So every time I switch, I need to readjust my typing style. Please add a setting to move the 「ー」key elsewhere!

そうそう😐 No Smiley key that goes directly to the emoticons menu? No Automatic spaces after a suggested word is selected? Typos not being autocorrected? No capatalize first character of the first word in a sentence? Too be honest I'm wasting so much time while writing my messages. why can't you make the UI look a bit more like the default international keyboard? 🙂

このキーボード最高！！！ This is the best Japanese keyboard I've used. Love how customizable it is - I can go from QWERTY in English mode to 12 key in Japanese mode. Also really love that I can shrink the keyboard size! Love it!

Add a way to go back to the old ui the new ui fixes some problems but adds new problems. My biggest problem with the new ui is the changes to the symbol and emoji menus. Please add a way to revert back in the settings instead of forcing people to the new ui

I love it This app can also help you to correct your grammar in Japanese mode. Hahaha love this app.. Why wait...?..... Please I'm looking forward to update it but i still rate this five stars... Thank you😇

Pretty good but... ...I wish there was better cross compatibility with other Google keyboards. Particularly this doesn't allow access to the "all languages" dictionary. There's an import function, but other keyboards don't have an export function.

Update... I like the new look of the keyboard, but you removed the ability to type in Unicode box drawings, something i use a lot as a forum weapon on Google+. Bring back the box drawings and I will give you five.⭐